Would you pay 2000 gold for a spellstrike piece?Follow

I can make the pants, but at minimum it would cost me 1100-1200 to make. Thats a huge amount of gold to have tied up for me. If I'm going to make these and sell them, I want at least 600g profit, I ran shattered halls a bunch to get the pattern, I have to farm heroics to get nether drops, I have to tie up all my gold in the hope that these sell.

I'm a little nervous to make my first pair. This site says the median AH price is 2500 gold, but what if I cant sell these things over a month? I'm wondering, for you endgame people, would you buy these? I just want to see the reaction here. I've seen the hood listed @ 5000g on my server, no idea if it sold or not.

Be real, how much would you spend on these? If you really wanted them, would you buy the mats instead and look for a tailor with a nether? I can find people who will bring me the mats with my nether and pay 200 gold, but I dont want to do that. Each pair of pants I make, I want the profit to put a serious dent in my epic flying mount account. So I'm thinking of selling between 2000-2350 gold.

Not a chance in hell, But it is likely I am not your target Audiance. I cannot immignie that there is a player who dose not know a tailor who would make them at item cost, saving some odd 500-600 gold, but I am sure they are out there, my guess is that they would be gold buyers(because most of the players I know that can amass 2000 in liquid cash can do so because they did not go arround spending money on stuff that they could have a freind craft.

I say to the KTurner route, say you can make it, set a fee, and let the buyer bring the mats.


When your plan involves other players being Gouged for hundreds of gold i cannot think it is a good one. What we have here is close to the Enchanters paradox, you want to trun a proffit off of getting the pattern(hey it is not eazy to get i do not question that, but you did not take up the trade tailoring for the soul reason of sellign this item, you have NOT invested the costs of leveling this skill to 375 for the reason of selling this item, you have used the trade, and liely make a few pennies on it as well), and then you want to be payed to dollar for your time farming(but thats built in to the market value of the farmed items). If you can sell them Thats great, but from my PoV it looks like you are looking to rake somebody over the coals on this. Heck maybe they deserve it, I mean what kind of person that get to 70 and dose not have a few freinds that they helped allong the way that they can ask the freind to press a button and NOT charge 600 Gold? well apperently one loaded to the Gills with Gold.



Or I am just a tightwad.(the far more likely truth)

So I'm just curious what you would charge then. Lets say you had this pattern, heres the prices of stuff on my server. I wont buy them, but this is the price I could easily sell the mats for, so you tell me.

10 pieces spellcloth - average 57.5 gold = 575 gold
5 primal might - average 95 gold = 475 gold
1 primal nether - people average pay 200 gold

So in total assuming I'm not paying 65 gold a pop for spellcloth, thats 1250 gold. And of course, I'm farming the primals for the might transmutes, which I could sell piece by piece for closer to 115 gold each. We wont factor that in, but thats about 100 gold more, so we could put the price at 1350 gold.

Now factor in, I'm not a spellcloth tailor, I'm a shadoweave tailor. So theoretically I can only make 1 spellcloth every 4 days, if I did no trading (which will be hard to trade anyway, spellcloth is the most expensive cloth by nearly 15 gold, it will be fun trying to trade for that..), it would take 40 days to make this thing. Of course I will try and trade, so if all went *perfect* I could make 1 every ~10 days or so. But that relies on me trading primal mooncloth and shadowcloth for spellcloth, which is of course very difficult, because like I stated, spellcloth is close to 60g average, shadowcloth and primal mooncloth are like 45.

Anyway assuming it went perfect, this is your farming list:

11 primal fire
5 primal water
5 primal air
8 primal life
7 primal shadow
1 primal nether
216 netherweave cloth
72 arcane dust


So you farmed all that, in theory, and waited 10 days to make this piece. And of course you're taking more of a gamble on it selling, the AH fees would be quite high, or you're sitting in trade all day trying to get rid of this thing while people laugh in your face even if you give them the base materials price (no profit). This also assumes you have a buddy doing all your primal might transmutes free, at least once every 2 days to fit in that 10 day ideal window. And of course while farming these mats, you're still running very high level instances in the small hope of a nether drop, or you're running heroics to get a better chance, and of course hoping you win the roll.

Now lets get serious, putting this together if you farm the mats is at least a month. After all that work, I'm just wondering what you would list the thing at. Honestly, what would you charge? How much profit would you want after all that work?

My guilds pretty big, I'm the only tailor with this drop. If I was close with someone, who attended raids, was serious about progression, and who I ran the same instances/heroics with, I would give them my nether free assuming they provided mats. Its still 1000 gold+ to buy the stuff off the auction house.

If I want the hood, I dont have the pattern. I dont know anyone with the pattern. I'd have to farm/buy all the mats (1100g), then sit in trade all day spamming 'wtb spellstrike hood, my mats your nether +200g'. Will it work? I dont know. It relies on a tailor with the pattern sitting around, and also assuming he has a nether which isnt the easiest thing to aquire.

You make it sound like every tailor has this pattern, they are a 1/200 drop each in 2 seperate instances. My drop is arguably tougher, you have to down the last boss in shadow labs for the drop chance. At a 1/200 drop I doubt every player knows a 375 tailor who will make these free.

Advertise you can make them. get primal. charge 200 for primal. win

Agreed. Advertise that you will make them for a fee (They supply the mats), and sell the mats at the AH. Negotiate the fee in advance.